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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gilroy say the Holocaust should help us see?
(a) The limits of rationality.
(b) The destructive potential of bureaucracies.
(c) The numbness to human suffering that comes from modernism.
(d) The murderous potential in technology.

2. When was the journal 'Presence Africaine' published?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1958.

3. What did blacks symbolize for Richard Wright?
(a) The earth and its resources.
(b) Childhood and early consciousness.
(c) Exploitation of labor for profit.
(d) America's history of racial slavery.

4. What does the Holocaust help us understood according to Gilroy?
(a) Genocidal terror.
(b) The black experience.
(c) Tolerance of cultural differences.
(d) Emotional indifference to suffering.

5. What does Gilroy say DuBois often reminded blacks?
(a) That slavery was a finite stage in the development of the world consciousness.
(b) That slavery was worse than cultural collapse.
(c) That slavery was the worst thing people could suffer.
(d) That slavery was not the worst form of domination.

6. Where did Richard Wright develop his ideas about race?
(a) In his world travels.
(b) Chicago.
(c) London.
(d) In the American south.

7. What feeling did DuBois see in the culture of diaspora blacks?
(a) Longing for the apocalypse.
(b) Ambivalence about modernity.
(c) Anger for being taken into exile.
(d) Resentment of progress.

8. What does Gilroy say Afrocentrism is really?
(a) Internationalism.
(b) Proletarianism.
(c) Ethnicity protecting its flanks.
(d) Americocentrism.

9. What does Gilroy predict will be the fault line issues for the twenty-first century?
(a) Race.
(b) Oil.
(c) Colonialism.
(d) Sustainability.

10. What did the struggle for black autonomy involve, for DuBois?
(a) Blacks helping blacks.
(b) Returning to black roots.
(c) Entrepreneurship.
(d) Social construction.

11. What does tradition signify in black culture according to Gilroy?
(a) A dynamic development of black culture.
(b) A history of reclaiming the self from slavery.
(c) A chance to invent tradition going forward.
(d) A world of opportunities in industrialism capitalism.

12. What horrified Richard Wright in Gilroy's account?
(a) The history of blacks in America.
(b) Blacks criticizing his characters.
(c) Europeans taking his books as true indications of life in America.
(d) Whites identifying with his black characters.

13. What are blacks asked to remember instead of slavery?
(a) Their salvation from tribal existence.
(b) Their ongoing cultural pride.
(c) The benefits of Western progress.
(d) Black civilization.

14. What is the effect of turning toward tradition in Gilroy's account?
(a) Slavery comes into focus as a foundational catastrophe.
(b) Slavery gets repossessed.
(c) Slavery becomes a cultural asset.
(d) Slavery becomes more remote.

15. Where does black culture draw its vocabulary of exile according to Gilroy?
(a) Camus.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Homer.
(d) Thucydides.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy say DuBois arrived at his identity?

2. How does Gilroy say that Richard Wright saw capitalism?

3. What did DuBois believe in that Richard Wright did not believe in according to Gilroy?

4. What is the role of tradition in black culture according to Gilroy?

5. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was criticized for?

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